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Sergio Poggianella: A szakrális táj. A Dalmeri menedék sámánja

A Sacred Landscape. The Shaman of the Dalmeri Shelter

Fig. 11. Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 34,1913, oil on canvas, 120x139 cm. Received in 1962 from the State Museum of the Tatar ASSR, Kazan. Provenance: collection of the Museum of Painterly Culture, Moscow. State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarsan, Kazan.

11. kép. Vaszilij Kandinszki, Improvizációk 34,1913. olajfestmény, 120x139 cm. 1962-ben átvéve a Tatár ASSR Állami Múzeumtól, Kazanyból. Eredete: Festészeti Múzeum gyűjteménye, Moszkva és Tatár Köztársaság Szépművészeti Múzeum, Kazany.

elements of the upper world; the right arm, bent 90 degrees and turned down, with the forearm entering a depression in the stone, seeming to sink into the chthonian world; all these natural details and the red ochre figure, which in part seems to penetrate the cuts and dips in the stone, idealise a sacred link between earthly human and divine supernatural. This extraordinary work of art also indicates an organised society, aware of the diverse roles covered by each individual and above all of the determining role of their leader, the shaman, who for the survival of the group, mediates between the earthly and the world of the spirits. The Dalmeri Shelter stones configure an ideal bridge between the real world and the kingdom of the invisible.

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